Fisher-Price Kasey the Kinderbot Focus on Phonics User manual

Focus on
Phonics™
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Before inserting the software cartridge, turn power off by pressing the
On/Off button on the top of Kasey’s foot. Insert the software cartridge into
the software port and Kasey automatically turns back on!
Please keep this manual for future reference, as it contains important information.
Getting Started
Getting Started
Software Port
Software Cartridge
On/Off Button

Choose an activity from the Main Menu: Fish for Consonants, Spin the Vowel, Blend up
Phonics and Rhyme Around™.Press a colored selection button to make your choice.
Note: Each activity has a teach mode and a quiz mode. Sometimes, Kasey may skip teach
mode and go right to quiz mode.
Fish for Consonants
Press the red selection button.
Learn about different consonant sounds.
Spin the Vowel
Press the blue selection button.
Learn about different vowel sounds
and how they’re used in words.
Blend up Phonics
Press the yellow selection button.
Learn about phonic blends –
an important part of reading!
Rhyme Around™
Press the green selection button.
Let’s play a rhyming game. Match
up the words that sound the same.
What do you want to do?
What do you want to do?
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Press the Home Button to return to the Main Menu at any time.
Home Button

• Press a colored selection button to
“catch” the fish!
Fish for Consonants
Fish for Consonants
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• Kasey says the sound of the
consonant printed inside the fish.
Hint: When you see this on Kasey’s screen,
press the red selection button to go directly to Quiz mode.

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• Let’s play. Listen to Kasey say a
consonant sound and a word that
uses that consonant sound. Now, press
the colored selection button next to
the letter that makes that sound.
Fish for Consonants
Fish for Consonants
• If you choose correctly, great job!
• If you choose incorrectly, Kasey tells
you which letter makes the sound.

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Fish for Consonants
Fish for Consonants
• Let’s “Letter-cize!”
“Sing along
with me!”

Spin the Vowel
Spin the Vowel
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• Press one of the colored selection
buttons to “spin” the vowel wheel.
• Listen as Kasey sings a vowel song!
Hint: When you see this on Kasey’s screen,
press the red selection button to go directly to Quiz mode.

Spin the Vowel
Spin the Vowel
• Press one of the colored selection
buttons to spin the vowel wheel.
Hint: When you see this on Kasey’s screen, press the green selection
button to hear the vowel sound and a word with that vowel sound again.
• Listen to the sound a vowel makes
and a word with that vowel sound.

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Spin the Vowel
Spin the Vowel
• Find the picture with the correct
vowel sound. Press the yellow or
green selection button.
• If you choose correctly, great job!
• If you choose incorrectly, Kasey
tells you the correct answer. Try
another one!
Hint: When you see this on Kasey’s screen,
press the green selection button to repeat the question.
Yellow
Selection
Button
Green
Selection
Button

• Listen as Kasey picks the first letter
to make a phonic blend.
Blend up Phonics
Blend up Phonics
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• Now, press the red or blue selection
button to pick the second letter to
make a phonic blend.
Hint: When you see this on Kasey’s screen,
press the red selection button to go directly to Quiz mode.
Red
Selection
Button
Blue
Selection
Button